The Code Behind Climategate

When anybody says "climategate" people that have heard about it usually say they have heard about the e-mails and the use of the word "trick". What most people haven't heard about is the source code that is used to create the climate models. The same climate models used in the IPCC Assessment Reports which is what future climate legislation is being based on. The best insight into the source code is the HARRY_READ_ME.txt file. This is the comments file or journal that the programmer that was tasked with figuring out and cleaning up the source code used to keep track of his progress. At tickerforum.org a commenter named Asimoz read through the 4000 line file and highlighted some of the major fraud that Harry had found and was trying to deal with. Here's a good one he found:

"The problem is that the synthetics are incorporated at 2.5-degrees, NO IDEA why, so saying they affect
particular 0.5-degree cells is harder than it should be. So we'll just gloss over that entirely ;0)

ARGH. Just went back to check on synthetic production. Apparently - I have no memory of this at all -
we're not doing observed rain days! It's all synthetic from 1990 onwards. So I'm going to need
conditionals in the update program to handle that. And separate gridding before 1989. And what TF
happens to station counts?

OH **** THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm
hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform
data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found."

You can spin the "trick" e-mail anyway you like, but the code is full of blantenly manipulated data.

Videos here and here were done by a programmer that looked at the leaked source code, used to develop the computer models. I'm not a programmer so I don't follow everything but you get the idea.